Derika Jaffe, Philip Rosenthal

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CreditFred Marcus

Jan. 15, 2017

Derika Brooke Jaffe and Philip Jeffrey Rosenthal are to be married Jan. 15 at the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. Rabbi Daniel Sherman is to officiate.

The bride, 32, will be taking her husband’s name. She works in Manhattan, overseeing business-renewal operations at Salesforce.com, a San Francisco-based software management services company. She graduated from the University at Buffalo.

She is the daughter of Sandra Jaffe of Allentown, Pa., and David Jaffe of Teaneck, N.J. The bride’s mother owns Sharpchef.com, a company in Allentown that manufactures artisan knives. Her father is a sales executive at Fodera & Sons, a bakery distribution company in Corona, Queens.

The groom, 50, is the co-founder and president of Fastcase, an online legal research company in Washington. He was the 2016 Republican candidate in New York’s 10th Congressional District, which includes the West Side of Manhattan and much of Brooklyn.

He graduated from Yale and received a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. He also received a law degree from Harvard. He serves on the board of the endowment for Middle East Truth, is a member of the leadership council of the Republican Jewish Coalition, and is a vice president of the New York County Republican Executive Committee.

He is the son of Richard Rosenthal of the Bronx and the late Molly Rosenthal. His father retired as the plant manager of New Thermal Corporation, a window-frame manufacturer in Woodbridge, N.J.